SOUTH AFRICA: FOOTBALL / SOCCER - WORLD CUP 2010 - Dunga ready to face his former mentor Eriksson

Record ID: 455673

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: FOOTBALL / SOCCER - WORLD CUP 2010 - Dunga ready to face his former mentor Eriksson
  • Date: 18th June 2010
  • Summary: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA (JUNE 19, 2010) (REUTERS) TRAINING GROUND BRAZIL GOALKEEPER HEURELHO GOMEZ WARMING UP BRAZIL AND INTER MILAN RIGHT BACK MAICON PLAYS NO LOOK PASS BRAZIL AND REAL MADRID MIDFIELDER KAKA TRAINING SESSION BRAZIL MIDFIELDERS ROBINHO AND GILBERTO SILVA STRETCHING TRAINING SESSION GIBLERTO SILVA BRAZIL AND BAYERN MUNICH CENTER BACK LUCIO TRAINING SESSION BRAZIL AND WOLFSBURG MIDFIELDER JOSUE VARIOUS OF TRAINING SESSION BRAZIL AND SEVILLA STRIKER LUIS FABIANO LAUGHING
  • Embargoed: 3rd July 2010 13:00
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  • Location: South Africa
  • Country: South Africa
  • Topics: Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVA2ZPUK9QGEN2LSYPYEWOFAX7PF
  • Story Text: It was all smiles amongst the Brazil squad during a training session in Johannesburg on Saturday (June 19), as Brazil coach Dunga prepares to meet his former mentor Sven-Goran Eriksson on the touchline when the five-times world champions meet Ivory Coast in a mouthwatering World Cup Group G clash at Soccer City on Sunday (June 20).
    Former England and Mexico coach Eriksson, now in charge of the West Africans, was Dunga's coach for a season at Fiorentina in 1988-89 and said recently that even then he could see that Dunga, 25 at the time, was leadership material.
    The Swede said even as a player, Dunga knew tactically everything about football. He said the Brazilian was one of the best footballers he ever had, and that he was not surprised that Brazil were extremely well-organized.
    The match will also see Brazil defender Lucio renew his rivalry with Ivory Coast forward Didier Drogba, who will play with a FIFA-approved cast to protect his fractured elbow.
    They faced each other when Lucio's Inter Milan knocked Chelsea out of last season's Champions League, with Drogba's frustration boiling over when he was sent off late in the second leg.
    Lucio, who did not give Drogba much of a look-in, later complained the Ivorian had tried to intimidate him, prompting an angry exchange between the two in the second game.
    Brazil, who struggled against a packed North Korean defense on Tuesday before finally winning 2-1, said they hoped the Africans -- needing points after a goalless draw against Portugal in their opener -- would play a more open game.
    Brazil will be playing their sixth match against African opposition at the World Cup, having won their previous five -- Zaire (1974), Algeria (1986), Cameroon (1994), Morocco (1998) and Ghana (2006) -- without conceding a goal.
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